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Sea turtle release

Next week, July 17 at 12:30PM, the SC Aquarium will be doing its first sea turtle release of 2008.

North Litchfield, a loggerhead sea turtle who entered the South Carolina Aquarium’s Turtle Hospital in April, 2008 has been cleared for release by the Aquarium’s full time veterinarian, Dr. Shane Boylan. On Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 12:30 p.m. join Aquarium staff at Folly Beach County Park to share in the excitement and honor one of the Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Rescue Program’s finest volunteers, William Carlton (Billy) Warren II, who sadly passed away this past March.

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Mostly normal

Heard from Nala’s vet today that her blood work results came back fine. No increase in circulating mast cells, which is good. However there was an incidental finding of slightly decreased thyroid hormone levels which would certainly explain why Nala’s such a mellow, relaxed dog and why she likes to sleep all the time.
The lump has shrunk considerably since starting her on Benadryl. Tuesday is surgery day where the lump will be removed and hopefully that will be the end of Nala’s MCT problems. I’ll have to make sure to give her a good going over every now and then to make sure no others pop up though.
Thanks to everyone for their well wishes for Nala.

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Mast cell tumour

Got a call from Nala’s vet today who told me that the lump on the back of Nala’s neck is a mast cell tumour (MCT).
Supposed to start her on Benadryl and she’s got an appointment on Tuesday for bloodwork and a chest x-ray to look for any other MCT sites. The following Tuesday she has another appointment for surgery to remove the one on her neck.
Hopefully this one hasn’t spread around anywhere else and that removing this one will be the end of it.

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Touched

I think the Flying Spaghetti Monster visited me in a dream last night and touched me with His Noodly Appendage.

I was in that odd semi-awake-but-still-mostly-sleeping state that happens a few hours before the alarm goes off. A vision of His Noodlyness appeared and then I was transported to a place that was a mix of recent things, things from the past and things that seemed like they belonged in the future.

In my dream, I was looking for someone, but couldn’t remember the person’s name. First I was in the little building that was constructed for our PET/CT trailer (when it was still in the trailer). Underneath the building though was a basement with a tunnel leading to some kind of underground caves. The basement looked hundreds of years old with old, fragile decaying beams supporting the building above.

There were people around. Some I didn’t know, some that I knew from here, and others that I knew from back home. Then from the cave below one of my roommates from when I was an undergrad student showed up. He climbed up the old beams to where I was and I asked him where I could find whoever it was I was looking for.

And then the dogs woke me up.

Flying Spaghetti Monster

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Walking the bridges

Here’s something that crosses my mind every time I drive over a bridge around here.

Is there some kind of law or requirement on the SC books that specifically requires bridges to have sidewalks? There are lots of bridges around here that have sidewalks on them, which is very nice.

The only problem is that for a lot of these sidewalked bridges, there are no sidewalks that lead up to the bridge.

So you can walk the bridges in relative comfort. You just have to rough it or put on your hiking boots to get there though.

What’s up with that?